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In this guide I’ll show you how to install the Azure Arc agent on Windows Server using the Azure Portal onboarding flow and PowerShell scripts. You’ll also learn about the Azure Connected Machine Agent (CMA), tray icon visibility, proxy configurations, and advanced troubleshooting techniques. For those managing hybrid environments with Linux, don’t miss my complementary article on Installing Azure Arc Agent on Linux to achieve a unified management strategy….

Microsoft is taking legal action to disrupt 240 websites owned by a cybercrime group in Egypt. The sites are connected to Abanoub Nady (MRxC0DER), who develops and sells DIY phishing kits under the ONNX brand name. The ONNX name is being used fraudulently to sell the do-it-yourself phishing kits, which are used by many cybercriminals…

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Ignite conference for IT Pros this week, as well as the US DOJ formally recommending that Google should be forced to divest itself of its Chrome web browser.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY25 Q1 earnings and why it may not make sense for the company to continue to invest in Surface hardware.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the antitrust complaint Google filed with the EU Commission this week regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices.

Microsoft has disclosed a new Windows spoofing vulnerability that was addressed in the September 2024 Patch Tuesday updates. The company warned that cybercriminals had already exploited this flaw in zero-day attacks earlier in the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43461, is a spoofing flaw in the Windows MSHTML platform with a CVSS score of 8.8….

Microsoft and Oracle have announced a slew of updates for the Oracle Database@Azure service. This solution allows customers to run Oracle Database workloads within the Microsoft Azure environment. Microsoft has announced the public preview of new Fabric integration with OCI GoldenGate. Microsoft Fabric is a new analytics and data platform that combines various services like…

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has given the green light to Microsoft’s acquisition of employees from Inflection AI. The antitrust regulator found that this “acquihire” of the AI startup’s team doesn’t affect competition in the enterprise AI space. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) shared the results of its investigation in a summary published…

I’m kicking off my series to upgrade my Hyper-V lab running Active Directory Domain Services. I’ll be performing in-place upgrades from Windows Server 2016/2019 to Windows Server 2022! I’ll also have some posts on updating the other member servers, file servers, Server Core, Windows Admin Center servers, etc. to 2022. Now, if you think only…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY24 Q4 earnings, which also wrap up Microsoft’s first full fiscal year of the AI era.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look back at the impact of the massive CloudStrike outage that affected millions of Windows PCs. They also discuss Microsoft not taking the blame after being forced by the European Commission to open up Windows to third-party security companies.